Vintage Book by JRR Tolkien 1956- Published by Houghton Mifflin Company Boston, book printed in Great Britain. Front cover jacket toward bottom has a slight shading darker as it goes down. There a few small tears at top of book jacket. Inside the front cover book jacket there is a small smudge toward top of jacket. On front cloth cover toward the top right side there is a very slight fading of the blue cloth . Back map is fully well attached and in good shape, bearly opened.